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The rise and fall of the American Whig Party : Jacksonian politics and the onset of the Civil War

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Author
Holt, Michael F.
Date of Publication
1999.
Call Number
324.2732 H758
  4 websites  
Responsibility
Michael F. Holt.
ISBN
0195055446 (alk. paper)
9780195055443 (alk. paper)
Author
Holt, Michael F.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
1999.
Physical Description
xviii, 1248 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [1181]-1201) and index.
Summary
"The political home of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, and the young Abraham Lincoln, the American Whig Party was represented at every level of American politics - local, state, and federal - in the years before the Civil War, and controlled the White House for eight of the twenty-two years that it existed. Now, in The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party, Michael Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written - a monumental history covering in rich detail the American political landscape from the Age of Jackson to impending disunion."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Whig Party (U.S.) - History.
Whig Party (U.S) - History.
Whigs (USA)
United States - Politics and government - 19th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
324.2732 H758
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The origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856

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Author
Gienapp, William E.
Date of Publication
1987.
Call Number
324.273 G454
  2 websites  
Responsibility
William E. Gienapp.
ISBN
0195041003 (alk. paper)
9780195041002 (alk. paper)
0195055012 (pbk.)
9780195055016 (pbk.)
Author
Gienapp, William E.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
1987.
Physical Description
xi, 564 p., [16] p. of plates : maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 449-474.
Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The presidential election of 18522 -- 2. The collapse of the second party system -- 3. Nebraska and nativism -- 4. The confusion of fusion -- 5. The failure of fusion -- 6. New issues, new leaders, new organizations -- 7. Launching the republican party -- 8. The formation of a national party organization -- 9. Spring breakthrough -- 10. The nomination of Frémont -- 11. Free soil, free labor, free speech, freemen, Frémont -- 12. The Frémont campaign -- 13. A victorious defeat -- Bibliography -- Statistical appendix -- Tables -- Index.
Summary
The 1850s saw in America the breakdown of the Jacksonian party system in the North and the emergence of a new sectional party--the Republicans--that succeeded the Whigs in the nation's two-party system. This monumental work uses demographic, voting, and other statistical analysis as well as the more traditional methods and sources of political history to trace the realignment of American politics in the 1850s and the birth of the Republican party. Gienapp powerfully demonstrates that the organization of the Republican party was a difficult, complex, and lengthy process and explains why, even after an inauspicious beginning, it ultimately became a potent political force. The study also reveals the crucial role of ethnocultural factors in the collapse of the second party system and thoroughly analyzes the struggle between nativism and antislavery for political dominance in the North. The volume concludes with the decisive triumph of the Republican party over the rival American party in the 1856 presidential election. Far-reaching in scope yet detailed in analysis, this is the definitive work on the formation of the Republican party in antebellum America. ... Publisher descri[ption.
Subjects
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) - History.
Republican Party (U.S.)
Political parties - United States
Elections - United States
United States - Politics and government - 1853-1857.
United States - Political parties: Republican Party (U.S.), 1852-1856
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
324.273 G454
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U.S. Grant and the colored people. : His wise, just, practical, and effective friendship thoroughly vindicated by incontestable facts in his record from 1862 to 1872. : Words of truth and soberness! He who runs may read and understand!! Be not deceived, only truth can endure!!!

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12871
Author
Douglass, Frederick,
Date of Publication
1872
Call Number
973.82 D737
  1 website  
Author
Douglass, Frederick,
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
Published by the Union Republican Congressional Committee,
Date of Publication
1872
Physical Description
8 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Letter addressed "To the colored people of the United States." Signed: Frederick Douglass. Washington, July 17, 1872.
Caption title.
Published by the Union Republican Congressional Committee. Cf. List of documents published by the Union Republican Congressional Committee. Speech of the Postmaster General, at Jackson, Mich. ... Washington, D.C., 1872, p. [8].
Text printed in two columns.
Summary
A brief address in the midst of the 1872 election campaign designed to document Ulysses S. Grant's support for African American liberation and civil rights. Douglass hoped thereby to rally the black vote for Grant.
Subjects
Grant, Ulysses S. - 1822-1885.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-)
African Americans
Freedmen
Campaign literature - United States - Specimens.
Additional Corporate Author
Union Republican Congressional Committee.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.82 D737
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Speech of Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the admission of Kansas, under the Lecompton Constitution : delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 4, 1858

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Author
Hammond, James Henry,
Date of Publication
1858.
Call Number
973.891 B628
  1 website  
Author
Hammond, James Henry,
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
Printed by L. Towers,
Date of Publication
1858.
Physical Description
15 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
Caption title: Kansas-Lecompton Constitution.
James Henry Hammond (November 15, 1807 - November 13, 1864) was an attorney, politician and planter from South Carolina. He served as a United States Representative from 1835 to 1836, the 60th Governor of South Carolina from 1842 to 1844, and United States Senator from 1857 to 1860. He was considered one of the major spokesmen in favor of slavery in the years before the American Civil War.He popularized the phrase that "Cotton is King" in his March 4, 1858, speech to the US Senate. [from Wikipedia]
Subjects
Statehood (American politics)
Kansas - Politics and government - 1854-1861 - Speeches in Congress.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
973.891 B628
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Speech of Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, on the President's message on the Lecompton Constitution, delivered in the Senate, February 3d and 4th, 1858

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Author
Wilson, Henry,
Date of Publication
1858.
Call Number
973.891 B628
  1 website  
Author
Wilson, Henry,
Place of Publication
[S.l
Publisher
s.n.]
Date of Publication
1858.
Physical Description
16 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Caption title.
Summary
Speech was in opposition to this proposed constitution for the new state of Kansas which would have made Kansas a slave state.
Subjects
Kansas - Politics and government - 1854-1861 - Speeches in Congress.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
973.891 B628
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Das neue und verbesserte Gesang-Buch : worinnen die Psalmen Davids samt einer Sammlung alter und neuer geistreicher Lieder sowohl für privat und Hausandachten, als auch für den öffentlichen Gottesdienst enthalten sind : nebst einem Anhang des Heydelbergischen Catechismus, wie auch erbaulicher Gebäter

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17724
Date of Publication
1797.
Call Number
245.31 P544sk 1797
  1 website  
Responsibility
nach einem synodal Schluss zusammengetragen und eingerichtet vor die Evangelisch-Reformirten Gemeinen in den Vereinigten Staaten von America.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Gedruckt by Steiner und Kämmerer, und H. Kämmerer, Jun.,
Date of Publication
1797.
Physical Description
[8], 148, [8], 585, [43] p. : ill., music ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Notes
Signatures: pi⁴ A-N⁶ (A)-(V)⁶ (W)⁶ (X)-(2U)⁶ (2W)⁶ (2X)-(3D)⁶ (3E)² (pi1 recto blank).
Printed in two columns.
"Sammlung alter und neuer geistreicher Lieder ..."--[8], 585, [10] p., with separate t.p.
"Catechismus, oder kurzer Unterricht christlicher Lehre ..."--P. [11-43], last count.
Copy 1 inscription on inside front cover: "This book was used by Marie Salome Le Roy Hall-Schnickel; born 1742 - died 1817. She was a daughter of Abram Le Roy and became wife of Charles Hall. After his death she was married to ____Schinckel. She was the Great-Great-Grandmother of Marion E. Breneman, of Dayton, Ohio. The line of descent being as follows: Salome Le Roy Hall, Elizabeth Hall Ford, Marian Ford Breneman, Edward Breneman, Marion E. Bredneman".
Without music.
Includes index.
Evans
Subjects
Breneman family.
German Reformed Church (U.S.) - Hymns - Texts.
German Reformed Church (U.S.) - Catechisms.
Hymns, German - Texts.
Relief prints.
Hymnals.
Catechisms.
Prayers.
Additional Author
Steiner, Melchior,
Kammerer, Henry,
Hall, Salome Le Roy Hall.
Additional Corporate Author
German Reformed Church (U.S.)
Additional Title
Bible.
Heidelberger Katechismus.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
245.31 P544sk 1797
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The Smithsonian First Ladies Collection

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20688
Author
Graddy, Lisa Kathleen,
Date of Publication
[2014]
Call Number
973.099 G732
  1 website  
Responsibility
Lisa Kathleen Graddy and Amy Pastan.
ISBN
9781588344694
158834469X
9781588344885
1588344886
Author
Graddy, Lisa Kathleen,
Place of Publication
Washington, DC
Publisher
Smithsonian Books,
Date of Publication
[2014]
Physical Description
104 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Michelle Robinson Obama -- Laura Welch Bush -- Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Barbara Pierce Bush -- Nancy Davis Reagan -- Rosalynn Smith Carter -- Elizabeth Bloomer Ford -- Thelma Ryan Nixon -- Claudia Taylor Johnson -- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy -- Mamie Doud Eisenhower -- Elizabeth Wallace Truman -- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt -- Lou Henry Hoover -- Grace Goodhue Coolidge -- Florence Kling Harding -- Edith Bolling Galt Wilson -- Ellen Axson Wilson -- Helen Herron Taft -- Edith Carow Roosevelt -- Ida Saxton McKinley -- Caroline Scott Harrison -- Frances Folsom Cleveland -- Lucretia Rudolph Garfield -- Lucy Webb Hayes -- Julia Dent Grant -- Mary Todd Lincoln -- Harriet Rebecca Lane -- Jane Appleton Pierce -- Abigail Powers Fillmore -- Sarah Childress Polk -- Julia Gardiner Tyler -- Letitia Christian Tyler -- Louisa Johnson Adams -- Elizabeth Kortright Monroe -- Dolley Payne Todd Madison -- Abigail Smith Adams -- Martha Dandridge Custis Washington.
Summary
"The Smithsonian First Ladies Collection is a beautifully illustrated book inspired by one of the most popular attractions at the Smithsonian: the first ladies exhibit at the National Museum of American History. This striking book showcases the treasures from first ladies throughout history, ranging from Martha Washington's silk dress and dressing mirror to Michelle Obama's 2009 inaugural gown and jewelry. These and many other unforgettable objects--including gowns, tableware, and invitations from beloved first ladies such as Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, and more--tell the story of the first ladies as public and private figures. They illustrate how these women, thrust into an influential and visible role by happenstance of marriage, adapted themselves and the role of first lady by taking on responsibilities as campaigners, hostesses, and policy advocates. The Smithsonian First Ladies Collection features many treasures not on view at the exhibit. Complete with an insider's look at the acquisition, conservation, and exhibition of the pieces as well as a timeline of all forty-six first ladies, this is a must-have for anyone fascinated by these incredible women and their roles in American culture and political life"--
Subjects
National Museum of American History (U.S.) - Exhibitions.
National Museum of American History (U.S.)
Presidents' spouses - United States - Biography - Miscellanea.
Presidents' spouses - United States - Exhibitions.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Presidents' spouses.
First ladies - Biography.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Additional Author
Pastan, Amy,
Additional Corporate Author
National Museum of American History (U.S.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.099 G732
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The trial in ejectment between Campbell Craig, lessee of James Annesley, Esq., and others, plaintiffs and the Right Honourable Richard, Earl of Anglesey, defendant : before the barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer in Ireland : begun on Friday, November 11th, 1743 and continued by several adjournments to Friday, the 25th of the said month : containing, the evidence at large as delivered by the witnesses, with all the speeches and arguments of the judges and of the counsel

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Author
Craig, Campbell.
Date of Publication
1744.
Call Number
Book 87 1744
  1 website  
Responsibility
taken in short-hand by Mr. John Lodge, and corrected and revised by themselves ; published by the permission of the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron Bowes, the Hon. Mr. Baron Mountney [sic], and the Hon. Mr. Baron Dawson.
Author
Craig, Campbell.
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed for John Smith ... and Abraham Bradley ...,
Date of Publication
1744.
Physical Description
377, [3] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes
" ... the plaintiff's title is brought to a single question, whether the lessor, Mr. James Annesley be the legitimate issue of Arthur, late Lord Altham ... ": p. 359.
Signatures: [A]² B-L² "M[N]"² O-4R² "[4R]"² 4S-5C².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page
Book number 87 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC (RLIN)
Subjects
Craig, Campbell
Anglesey, Richard Annesley, - Earl of, - 1694-1761
Annesley, James, - 1715-1760
Craig, Campbell.
Ejectment - Ireland.
Illegitimacy - Ireland.
Ejectment.
Illegitimacy.
Ireland.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Additional Author
Anglesey, Richard Annesley,
Annesley, James,
Lodge, John,
Yeates, Jasper, 1745-1817,
Additional Corporate Author
Ireland. Court of Exchequer.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 87 1744
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Nativism and slavery : the northern Know Nothings and the politics of the 1850's

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Author
Anbinder, Tyler.
Date of Publication
1992.
Call Number
320.973 S532
  2 websites  
Responsibility
Tyler Anbinder.
ISBN
0195072332
9780195072334
Author
Anbinder, Tyler.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
1992.
Physical Description
xv, 330 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-310) and index.
Summary
Although the United States has always portrayed itself as a sanctuary for the world's victim's of poverty and oppression, anti-immigrant movements have enjoyed remarkable success throughout American history. None attained greater prominence than the Order of the Star Spangled Banner, a fraternal order referred to most commonly as the Know Nothing party. Vowing to reduce the political influence of immigrants and Catholics, the Know Nothings burst onto the American political scene in 1854, and by the end of the following year they had elected eight governors, more than one hundred congressmen, and thousands of other local officials including the mayors of Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago. After their initial successes, the Know Nothings attempted to increase their appeal by converting their network of lodges into a conventional political organization, which they christened the "American Party." Recently, historians have pointed to the Know Nothings' success as evidence that ethnic and religious issues mattered more to nineteenth-century voters than better-known national issues such as slavery. In this important book, however, Anbinder argues that the Know Nothings' phenomenal success was inextricably linked to the firm stance their northern members took against the extension of slavery. Most Know Nothings, he asserts, saw slavery and Catholicism as interconnected evils that should be fought in tandem. Although the Know Nothings certainly were bigots, their party provided an early outlet for the anti-slavery sentiment that eventually led to the Civil War. Anbinder's study presents the first comprehensive history of America's most successful anti-immigrant movement, as well as a major reinterpretation of the political crisis that led to the Civil War.
Subjects
American Party.
American Party
Nativism.
Antislavery movements - United States.
Know-Nothings.
United States - Politics and government - 1853-1857.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
Politics - History, 1845-1861
United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
320.973 S532
Websites
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President James Buchanan's betrayal of Governor Robert J. Walker of Kansas

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14755
Author
Harmon, George Dewey ,
Date of Publication
1929.
Call Number
905.748 HSP
  1 website  
Responsibility
by George D. Harmon.
Author
Harmon, George Dewey ,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,
Date of Publication
1929.
Physical Description
pp. 51-91 ; 23 cm.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 53.
Subjects
Walker, Robert James , - 1801-1869.
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Kansas - Politics and government - 1854-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP
Websites
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